tusker

Example Sentences

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On 5 June Tamil Nadu's forest officials tranquilised and captured the tusker.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2023

After a large tusker was electrocuted by low-hanging power lines in December, the herd returned the following day to trample the crops where he’d been buried.

From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2020

Satao II was believed to be around fifty years old; he was named after Kenya’s greatest tusker, Satao, who was killed by poachers in 2014.

From The New Yorker • May 2, 2017

With elephant numbers in free-fall in many places, losing even one big tusker is damaging to a herd.

From National Geographic • Oct. 17, 2015

He was a tusker of most forbidding appearance, and the instant his wicked little eyes fell upon Donalblane he bristled up and began gnashing his tusks ominously.

From Donalblane of Darien by Oxley, J. Macdonald (James Macdonald)